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Needham Public Health hosts vaccination clinic for residents of town's housing authority Wicked Local One-hundred Needham Housing Authority residents received their first COVID-19 vaccination Saturday during a clinic hosted by Needham Public Health. Around 455 Needham residents live in housing managed by the NHA, where rent is paid with varying levels of assistance from either the state or federal government. According to Needham Public Health Director Timothy McDonald, the clinic employed Russian, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish translators to assist some residents. McDonald said the town or...

BOURNE — The Cape's legislative delegation sent a letter to local school superintendents telling them not to expect an educator-only vaccination site this side of the bridge any time soon, even as state officials Wednesday called for such local clinics to be held. “We have asked the Baker-Polito Administration about setting up educator-specific sites and, so far, we have received a hard NO,” the letter dated Tuesday read. The eight legislators urged teachers and other school employees not to wait for a vaccine but to avail themselves of appointments through CVS, the state’s seven mas...

Unions push Baker to back plan for firefighters to vaccinate educators, school workers By John Hilliard Globe Staff,Updated March 7, 2021, 7:37 p.m. Email to a Friend Freshman students in class at Brockton High School.David L. Ryan/Globe Staff Unions representing teachers and firefighters expect to meet Wednesday with the state’s Health and Human Services secretary on their proposal to have firefighters administer vaccine doses to thousands of school workers — a program they say would facilitate a more timely and convenient inoculation of educators across Massachusetts. The meeting,...

BOSTON (AP) — Unions representing teachers and firefighters in Massachusetts have...

Now the school just needs the vaccine — nearly 2,000 doses. “That’s what we’re waiting for,” school Superintendent Roger Forget said Wednesday afternoon. The plan is to dispense 1,997 first shots in a single day — possibly March 19 — to pre-K through grade 12 staff in the Bourne, Sandwich, Falmouth, Mashpee and Upper Cape Tech school districts, he said. “It’s not just teachers. It’s everyone. It’s the bus drivers. It’s the custodians,” said Forget, who worked with state Rep. Steven G. Xiarhos, Sandwich Selectman David J. Sampson and Sandwich fire Chief John Burke to ...